The Principle of ' P3R ' in currency trading.

Many of the highly successful currency traders have acquired their skills through self development and relative minimum of guidance from senior traders.In these situations we can break-down their learning activities into four compartments that can be called 'P3R' prepare,plan,perform and review.'Prepare' refers to activities that orient the performer to the upcoming challenge.Reviewing charts and market data prepares a currency trader for the upcoming trading sessin..'Plan' relies on the assessment of strengths and weaknessess to guide how the performance will be undertaken.A currency traders plan includes the patterns he or she will trade, the capital to be allocated to trades,allowable risk etc.'Perform' is the execution of the plan with mid-course currection as needed.A currency trader may reassess a plan in the light of unexpected economic news and a price break-out.'Review' comes after performance as part of assessing what was done right or wrong.A currency trader utilizes review to identify flaws in trading plans and the execution of those plans, using the feed back to begin a new cycle of 'P3R'.Trading journals are a timebound tool for self mentoring, structuring and documenting 'P3R' process.How does your P & L break-down as a function of a day in a week?Do you make or lose more money in a particular day compared to other days? You must keep the size of the losers much smaller than the average winners to make your system profitable.Good trading to my readers. Muraleedharan http://forexcentral.googlepages.com

Trading Plan for currency Trading.

Your trading plan consists of your entry , stop loss exit , profit target exit and risk to reward ratio.You have a set up you trade and entry trigger signal.Before entering itself you should plan for two exits. One is a stop loss exit and the second is a profit target exit.Your risk to reward should be 1:2.5 for swing trading in my opinion.Imagine you have an entry signal where your stop loss need to be placed 2 dollars and your target is only 1 dollar. This is a high risk condition and you should pass on the trade even though you have an entry signal. You should wait for low risk entries.When a trader becomes risk oriented that is the stage in which currency trader can pull out consistent profits from the market.If you have multiple trades you can plan for two profit target exits one with 1:1.5 risk to reward ratio and move the stop loss to entry point for the other remaining position to let the profits run.By moving the stop to entry level you have cut your lossess. Here you have incorporated all the three simple rules of trading in your plan ie 1)Cut your lossess 2) Let the profits run 3) Trade selectivity.You have become risk oriented and you take only selected low risk entries.Muraleedharan http://forexcentral.googlepages.com